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Human Quotes by John Steinbeck
- Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed
- Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
- Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the human…
- The human is the only guilty animal.
- Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will…
- I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great…
- No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
- Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for the…
- It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it.
- But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is…
- What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few and those perhaps…
- I believe there are techniques of the human mind whereby, in its dark deep, problems are examined, rejected or accepted. Such activities sometimes concern facets…
- The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
- And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would…
- The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience; that they had gone through pain and had come out on the…
- What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in…
- The Hebrew word, the word timshel - 'Thou mayest' - that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That…
- We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years. Perhaps my greatest…
- Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an…
- Life cannot be cut off quickly. One cannot be dead until the things he changed are dead. His effect is the only evidence of his…
- This I believe: That the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight…
- And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would…
More Human Quotes
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong